Latest Dodge: Buy a car, get one free

Latest Dodge: Buy a car, get one free

With car sales plummeting, dealers have been driven to offer a supermarket-style deal of two £20,000 saloons for the price of one to shift stock.

Industry experts at the AA described the offer as “almost unbelievable” but admitted the car market is in crisis.

Buyers can now snap up hundreds of Dodge Avenger SXT 2.4i saloons, with leather seats and climate control, as the dealers sell them off at a loss.

The brand new cars also offer alloy wheels and sat-nav as standard. Dodge dealers are offloading the cars in a groundbreaking move through price comparison websites such as Broadspeed.com

With so many cash-strapped Brits unable to afford to buy new cars, Broadspeed is selling the left-over cars at bargain prices.

AA spokesman Vanessa Guyll said: “In 23 years in the industry I have never seen anything like this.

“You expect this kind of thing with washing powders in supermarkets – but not cars. Many within the industry will react with shock and horror at this.

“There is no doubt the problems in the car market are severe and this shows that dealers are now being forced to offer extraordinary deals as they have a lot of stock they cannot shift and are now prepared to do so at a loss.

“So it’s a brilliant time to buy a car if you have the money.”

Broadspeed.com managing director Simon Empson said: “For franchised dealers to be giving away a free car means that someone, somewhere along the line is making a very big loss.

“Some manufacturers have got five to six months of unsold stock. The motor trade is beyond desperate – it’s in crisis.”

New car sales in the UK slumped by a staggering 21% in September – down from 419,290 last year to 330,295, the fifth consec-utive monthly drop.